riley

@riley@toot.cat

👩‍🔬 #geek girl (#software, #dsl, #retrocomputing, #electronics, #fpga, #maths, #infosec, sometimes #sre);
🧠 #Neurodivergent (#ADHD / #TeamADHD), interested in #ActuallyAutistic / #AuDHD matters;
🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ #trans / #GirlsLikeUs, 💊 2018-12-13;
⬱🌹 Social Democrat (#SocDem), 🧙‍♀️ aspiring Social Justice Witch (#SJW);
🌌 #cosmopolitan (Wahlheimat: 🇩🇪 #Deutschland / #Germany, 🇪🇺 #EU, 🌍 #Terra);
🇺🇦 Protect Ukraine: <https://toot.cat/@riley/109575519338488877>.

𓅾 Twitter refugee. Former G+ refugee.

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FuchsiaShock, to random

The images that pop into my brain sometimes

riley,

@FuchsiaShock :blobcatinlove:​

pgcd, to fuckcars
@pgcd@mastodon.online avatar

It's crazy how drugs were banned in a lot of places, even though people like them and want to buy them, but apparently SUVs can't be banned because people like them and want to buy them.

and SUVs in particular.

riley,

@pgcd: Imagine a no-knock warrant of people suspected of secretly owning a SUV and possibly flushing it down the toilet if the cops knocked before executing somebody.

lauren, to random
@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org avatar

Ya' know what ultimately happened long ago to all those small telephone companies that interconnected with AT&T? They became AT&T. Just sayin'.

riley,

@lauren: I don't think that's historically accurate, nor transferrable to the Fediverse situation if it were.

hackaday, to random
@hackaday@hackaday.social avatar

We've got an icon for materials meant to be recycled, why not a similar logo for hardware that's designed to be repaired?

https://hackaday.com/2023/07/07/show-em-what-youre-made-of-with-this-repair-logo/

riley,

@hackaday: I like the idea.

Some thinking into how to best design hardware for repairability might be a good idea, too.

Jyoti, to random
@Jyoti@mas.to avatar

Obviously, I'm not an Elon lover but...

Great wealth is like great mass. I think it fundamentally warps the social fabric around it, drawing in all manner of people for one reason only: they want your money.

Billionaires are black holes of wealth. They're so wealthy that they've become social singularities: there is no relationship that their money doesn't spaghettify.

Even the distant tidal forces of their whims rip apart once-useful things.

Help them: take away all their money.

riley,

@Jyoti: That's the central thesis of Quantum Pandanomics. Big piles of money emit such strong attractive force that they warp moneyspacetime around themselves, which can be seen in all sorts of fun ways, from the infamous money defect, er, diminishing utility, to how drilling wormholes through warped moneyspacetime allows future money to be sucked into the present, and, of course, the unescapeable black holes or, as the technical term goes, the unescapeable arseholes.

riley, to random

Muzak these days isn't what it used to be.

http://annex.retroarchive.org/crescent/crescent%20software%20hold%20music%20ads%20-%20wbas.mp3

amberage, to StarTrek
@amberage@eldritch.cafe avatar

is always like:

"Oh no, the boinky rays from that ship's wonkalizer are disrupting our phaser banks!"

And then the other guy is like "try channeling the weapons through the dinkdonk collimator and route it through the deflector!"

And then they do it and suffer no ill effects and then they never do it again ever.

riley,

@amberage: If it had been a Ferengi ship, the boinky rays would have caused the phaser bankers to have reassessed the risks and hiked the phaser interest rates.

riley, to random

Rain! :blobcatenjoyrain:​

emilymbender, to random
@emilymbender@dair-community.social avatar

Friends & followers in library science -- are there existing standards for citing anonymous work (& esp work that is anonymous but will be deanonymized in the future)?

riley,

@emilymbender: Well, there's countless works of antiquity whose authors are unknown, and that are regularly cited.

In the particular American context, the Federalist Papers are a famous and frequently-cited collection of writings by once-anonymous people who were deanonymised in the future of the past.

riley, (edited ) to random

It's 31 °C in the shadow and rising. :blobcatmeltmelt:​

riley,

@Uilebheist Fixed.

riley, to random

Oh my, whatever that Pennsylvania Jehovah event was, witnessing it must have been highly traumatic.

Five more people, who are not drag queens or trans individuals, have been charged in a growing investigation into child sexual abuse in the Pennsylvania Jehovah's Witnesses religious organization. I'm starting to see a theme here with children being sexually abused by people in religious organizations.

Source: https://crooksandliars.com/2023/07/five-more-jehovahs-witnesses-charged-child

taylorlorenz, to random
@taylorlorenz@mastodon.social avatar

Things seem to be going just as Musk planned over on Twitter

riley,

@taylorlorenz: When Twitter's downfall will become so obvious that not even the Nazis can deny it, they'll call Melon a Jewish saboteur who will have bought Twitter just so as to discredit Nazi ideas. 🥸

riley,

@antimnguyen: Correction: that's a lot of Nazis.

@taylorlorenz

riley, to random

The ancient practice of an airplane's pilot calming people in a crisis by reciting a bunch of random factual details about weather and travel speed and destination airport's condition is best understood as performing neurodivergent enthusiasm to passangers who feel safer with their plane being piloted by a neurodivergent person than by a neurotypical one.

limepot, to random

why are neurotypicals like that

riley,

@rq: But that ignores the significant social construct part of neurotypical behaviour.

@limepot

natty, to random
@natty@astolfo.social avatar

Imagine having a strong opinion about tech

Obviously the stack I use is the best

(this is a sarcasm, please don't eat me lmao)

riley,

@natty: Makes perfect sense. If it was not the best stack, why would you be using it?

riley, to random

I'm not sure why it is, but it seems that my air purifier is reducing the subjective sense of humidity in hot weather. (And lead to sharp worsening when turned it off and put it to a second room to have space for assembling furniture.)

I don't quite know why it would be. AFAIU, the purifier is just using a HEPA filter, with the most aggressive thing in it being activated charcoal, and I think nothing in it should be particularly effective at reducing actual humidity. Perhaps some of the subjective feeling of humidity comes from some kind of fine dust or pollen that the purifier picks up?

Potential confounder: I assembled furniture while the purifier was offline.

riley, to random

"Pick a spoon, any spoon" ?

riley, to random

A curious thing that Naomi does is, she often posts her debates with titles that resemble clickbait, except hers are literal descriptions of something that really happens in there. :blobcatfluffowo:​

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQQQGPWIMao

riley,

@twipped: The clout-sharkery part, though, gets elaborated at length.

tantramar, (edited ) to accessibility
@tantramar@nojack.easydns.ca avatar

Those of you using cutesy font/display settings in your usernames — cursive, flipped, reversed order, or rotated/upside-down letters — please understand that this is aggressively hostile to users of screen reader software, which will announce each character in exhaustive, technical detail. Please don’t do this. It becomes a massive speed-bump in their timelines. If failing to use alt tags on images is passively bad, this is actively bad.

riley,

@tantramar: This screen reader software needs to get its Unicode support improved. It's not like figuring out that there's a bunch of similarly fancy letters so they make a fancy word takes some hard effort; all the mappings are explicitly in Unicode databases. Screen reader software that doesn't recognise this stuff properly is just held back by lazy capitalists.

Rotated letters, well, that might require some AI to figure out.

Rp12Biker, to retrocomputing

Really flashed today. Someone donated a AMD 386-DX40 based big tower a few minutes ago. Did you have ever seen such a clean board after 30 years??

riley,

@Rp12Biker: Perhaps they cleaned it before donating.

riley,

@Uilebheist: That's actually a likely explanation. It would also explain why a 386 was still around in 2023 — industrial systems have long, long lives.

It might have been living in a cleanroom or a medical or forensic laboratory.

@Rp12Biker

BrentToderian, to Finland
@BrentToderian@mastodon.online avatar

This is REALLY important.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment and counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
Let that sink in. It costs less than accepting homelessness.

https://scoop.me/housing-first-finland-homelessness/

riley,

@gocu54: I'm not sure you understand how numbers work.

@lisamelton @BrentToderian

greene, to books

Hey friends, what’s the best thing to do with used books other than just selling them on Amazon? I don’t typically reread, so I have some wonderful books in great condition that need new homes. One of them was released just a couple months ago. Is there a way to find out if my local might be interested?

riley,

@greene: You could post an offer for sale, and your local area. By the same strange magic that makes trans people's friends to be more likely trans than general public, the people who follow you on Fediverse are more likely to find books you enjoyed interesting as well than the general public.

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